Word: commandingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...With a command that embraces 10,440 sq. mi.-all five of the northernmost provinces that comprise I Corps -Walt had the task of stabilizing South Viet Nam's queasiest territory. The region was plagued by the country's most aggressive guerrillas, threatened with the massive cutting edge of well-armed North Vietnamese divisions and abroil with political dissidence. From the outset, Walt gave priority to winning over the civilians and holding the villages...
Soldier's Soldier. Six weeks ago, with 76,000 Marines and 19,000 soldiers under his command, Walt finally closed with major elements of 71,000 guerrillas and regulars threatening I Corps. Though the Marines pulverized the Communist forces, they took high casualties. Walt's critics cited the U.S. losses as the reason for his surrendering command to Lieut. General Robert E. Cushman Jr. Actually, it was known long before the DMZ battles that Walt, bone-weary from endless rounds of 15-hour days, was leaving Viet Nam at the end of his second year...
...recalled its own diplomats from Damascus. In Yemen, Egyptian troops launched a new campaign aimed at driving Yemeni royalists from a stronghold in the northern mountains; in raids during the previous week, Egyptian planes had bombed two Saudi Arabian towns. Forgotten entirely last week was unified Arab military command, established three years ago to oversee any joint effort against Israel. Both Egypt and Syria refused under any circumstances to coordinate their military plans with their brother Arabs of the non-leftist nations. Jordan's Army...
...Pasay City, a suburb of Manila, a most unusual group of men gathered last week. They were members of an obscure political sect called Lapiang Malaya (Freedom Movement), and they were armed with long bolo knives and dressed in peculiar blue uniforms with red and yellow capes. At the command of their leader, an old (eightyish) fanatic named Valentin de los Santos, they had come up from their homes in the paddy fields of southern Luzon. Their mission: to march on the presidential palace in Manila and overthrow the government...
Raggedy Ann & 300 Hats. The command decision to play down both The Great Society and the Viet Nam war and instead to fill up Bucky's bubble with lighthearted exhibits was made three years ago when the theme, "Creative America," was chosen. Said USIA Exhibits Director Robert Sivard: "These exhibits are meant to entertain, not to educate or advertise our wares." To work out the designs that were to be placed on escalator-linked platforms leading up to the suspended space-scarred Apollo capsule, the USIA picked a group of sophisticated young designers known as "the Cambridge Seven...